Welcome to this month's Climate Now update, providing insights into what's really happening to our planet. In our report this month we focus on invasive species of ant from southern Europe now colonising cities all the way up to the Netherlands.
But first a quick look at the figures for May. According to the latest data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the past month of May tied as the joint second warmest on record.
The global temperatures were 0.4 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average.When analyzing the map of temperature anomalies for May, the data showed that European temperatures were largely average.
Meanwhile, Canada, the northern US, and certain regions over the Pacific saw significantly higher temperatures.Of note is the warming over the Pacific Ocean.